SC - Cookery-Art or Science

[Decker, Terry D.]

Bear wrote:
> After careful consideration, I must say that baking can not be a Science.
> To be a Science, the results must be reproducible and any baker will tell
> you they can't guarantee what is going to come out of the oven.  In most
> instances, the end product will be within usable tolerances, but there is
> always the occasional catastrophe.  

Tell me about it!  One night I was cooking a pound cake, and followed 
the recipe religiously (it was my first time with this recipe).  When 
the time was up, I pulled it from the oven to discover that the top / 
outside were almost burnt (but edible) and the inside was completely 
uncooked.  We were in the midst of a chopping party for an upcoming 
event, and several people proclaimed that it was "the best 
pound-pudding they had ever had" and would cheerfully chop veggies 
for such offerings.

*sigh*  I don't know if I could do it again if I wanted to.

One of my friends decided to try the recipe at home, but didn't want 
it to burn so she put it in the oven at 200.  She forgot it and went 
out shopping, coming home hours later to a perfect pound cake!  Ack!

Claricia Nyetgale
  still learning her craft
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